Doug Lederman

Doug Lederman, editor, is one of the three founders of Inside Higher Ed. With Scott Jaschik, he leads the site's editorial operations, overseeing news content, opinion pieces, career advice, blogs and other features. Doug speaks widely about higher education, including on C-Span and National Public Radio and at meetings around the country, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, the Nieman Foundation Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and the Princeton Alumni Weekly. Doug was managing editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education from 1999 to 2003. Before that, Doug had worked at The Chronicle since 1986 in a variety of roles, first as an athletics reporter and editor. He has won three National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, including one in 2009 for a series of Inside Higher Ed articles he co-wrote on college rankings. He began his career as a news clerk at The New York Times. He grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and graduated in 1984 from Princeton University. Doug lives with his wife, Sandy, and their two children in Bethesda, Md.

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May 6, 2005
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May 5, 2005
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May 5, 2005
Asked to predict which institution would join Southern Methodist University in the pantheon of worst rules violators in the history of college sports -- becoming only the second recipient of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's so-called death penalty -- most observers would have guessed highly visible repeat wrongdoers like Auburn University or the University of Kentucky.
May 4, 2005
Drive for independence could hurt the creditworthiness of lower-tier state institutions, Standard & Poor's warns.
May 4, 2005
NCAA survey finds colleges putting more institutional dollars in play to offset athletics deficits.
May 3, 2005
Supreme Court will decide long-running dispute over campus access for military recruiters.
May 3, 2005
The Daily Texan will remain unique for at least a little while longer. The University of Texas at Austin student newspaper is believed to be the only such publication where the student body elects the editor, right alongside student government leaders, in a vote each spring.
May 3, 2005
In American society today, some words just can't be apologized away.
May 2, 2005
A new book urges colleges to give low-income students the same admissions edge they give to children of alumni.

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